Desperate Measures at Winter Park Playhouse
Dates: 9/20/2019 - 10/13/2019
📍 Theatre: Winter Park Playhouse
711 Orange Avenue, Suite C
Winter Park, FL 32789
Phone: 407-645-0145
Tickets: $20-$45
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Desperate MeasuresBook & Lyrics by Peter Kellogg / Music by David FriedmanSeptember 20 - October 13, 2019Previews: Sep 19 at 7:30pm & Sep 20 at 2:00pmNational Premiere! This hilarious, critically-acclaimed Off-Broadway musical comedy is set in the 1890s and inspired by Shakespeare's Measure for Measure. When dangerously handsome Johnny Blood must put his fate into the hands of a colorful cast of characters including a wily sherriff, an eccentric priest, an authoritarian governor, a saloon girl gone good, and a nun out of the habit, will they rise up and pull of the greatest caper yet or will Johnny by left hanging? Winner of 2018 Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards!Suitable for Most Audiences (Age 13 & up)
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